Magistrate Tang said with an indistinct look: "How many people can there be in one household if there are hundreds of households in a mile? You have lived here for generations and have been here for a long time, but you can't even recognize the people in the hundreds of households. I am very curious, how do you do it?"
Choose the ones with longer insides.”
The cold sweat on Mori Chang's forehead suddenly fell down.
Magistrate Tang picked up the gavel tree and slapped it hard, shouting angrily: "The officials and the people collude to protect each other. Are you targeting your own officials, or are you thinking of turning into bandits and causing rebellion in the Jin Dynasty?"
After hearing this, Chief Mo Li and Chief Sun Li immediately fell to the ground and shouted, "Excuse me, sir, we have no intention of rebellion."
Chief Mo Li turned to look at Chief Sun, and shouted: "Chang Sun, are you still protecting your clan members now?"
Sun Lichang's face instantly turned livid, and he felt a sharp gaze falling on him. He couldn't help but secretly grit his teeth, but did not dare to show anything on his face. He immediately lay on the ground and apologized, "My lord, please forgive me. I am guilty, this little old man is guilty."
The person being tortured in the hall is called Wang San, and he is from our house."
Magistrate Tang said expressionlessly: "But his surname is not Sun either."
Sun Li was dripping with cold sweat and said with a guilty conscience: "There is a clan member named Sun Dashu. Two days ago, the little old man accidentally heard the news that Sun Dashu went out with two or three young people from nearby villages who were having fun.
After one trip, I came back with a lot of money."
He said: "Because they are a group of young people who are idle all day long, I was very happy when I heard the news, thinking that they had grown up and realized that they were making progress. But then I vaguely heard that the money was not serious. This matter
Chief Mori also knows because there are several young people among them."
Now it was Mori's turn to grit his teeth.
Magistrate Tang's eyes fell on Chang Mori.
Chief Mo Li could only respond "Yes" and said: "I have only vaguely heard about it, and there is no proof. We are outsiders after all. We can't come to ask them how to make money. Those who don't know think we want to rob them."
Where is their livelihood?"
"Why are the officers I send to investigate them always ignored?"
Chief Mo Li and Chief Sun Li yelled at Qu together and said, "Sir, we are really not perfunctory. In fact, the portraits brought by the men are very blurry. Perhaps it is because we are old and dim, so we really can't recognize the paintings."
people."
Magistrate Tang sneered.
Doesn't he know if the portrait is blurry?
The original painting was painted by Bai Shan. The person involved, Zhou Lang, said that it looked very similar, and he hired a painter to take a picture of it. He himself compared it and found that it was not much different from the real person.
Now if you tell him that his painting is blurry, do you think he is stupid?
Bai Shan was also very unhappy, after all, he was the one who painted the original painting.
Bai Shan, who was very serious, stepped forward to pick up Wang San's portrait, walked up to him, compared his face carefully and said, "Master Tang, although this portrait is not very similar to the real person, it still has a seventy-seventh resemblance.
, I don’t believe that people who are familiar with Wang San would not be able to recognize him.”
Chief Mo Li and Chief Sun Li looked up quietly and glanced at Bai Shan. They didn't know what this young man did or where he came from.
So he frowned slightly.
Bai Shan glanced at them and said: "Sir, the two village chiefs said that they are too old and too dim to recognize normal people. Could it be that the people in the three villages are also too dizzy? It can be seen that they are deliberately covering up."
Mo Li was afraid of the Tang County Magistrate, but not Bai Shan. Hearing this, he said: "You kid, how can you talk nonsense without evidence? Sir, everything we said is true, we really have no intention of hiding it.
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Magistrate Tang smiled at Bai Shan and said, "What do you say?"
Bai Shan collected the paintings and returned to Man Bao, saying: "Just think that what you said is the truth, my lord, the two village chiefs have obviously derelict in their duties when they are so old and dim. The village chiefs are supposed to manage the villagers on behalf of the imperial court.
, but they can’t even recognize the population of one hundred households, how can they manage the villagers well on behalf of the imperial court?”
Bai Shan lightly lowered his head and glanced at the two lieutenants kneeling on the ground, and said, "Sir, why don't you show sympathy to them and let them return home to retire."
Magistrate Tang nodded slightly and said with a smile: "You are right."
Chang Mo and Sun Lichang looked pale, but they felt relieved in their hearts.
County Magistrate Tang smiled slightly and said: "However, even if Chang Mo and Chang Sun have had their faults, they have managed the villagers for many years on behalf of the imperial court. Those who have made mistakes must be punished, and those who have meritorious service must naturally be rewarded. If you come, please invite them first."
Chief Mo Li and Chief Sun Li went to live in the back office, and tomorrow I will invite some more chiefs to come and give rewards to the two chiefs."
Chief Mo Li and Chief Sun Li were stunned, and immediately declined, "I don't dare, I don't dare. There are such unruly people under our rule. It doesn't matter if you don't punish us. How can we dare to talk about merits?"
Magistrate Tang said with a half-smile, "You two old men are joking. Merits must be rewarded, and transgressions must be punished."
Chief Mo Li and Chief Sun Li felt a chill in their hearts, knowing that he was not leaving them to reward them based on their merits, but was waiting to punish them?
But……
The two thought about it carefully and found that they had done so, but there seemed to be no actual evidence to prove their guilt.
At best, it's just neglect of duty.
They bit the person to death and couldn't recognize the person in the painting, so who can say they did?
After all, the two of them are really old.
The officer took the two of them down.
Magistrate Tang looked at their backs and sneered.
Man Bao stared at Magistrate Tang, and then whispered to Bai Shan, "I think you were tricked by Magistrate Tang."
Bai Shan was not stupid, so he said, "Are you saying that I shouldn't be the first person?"
Man Bao: "Be careful they take revenge on you."
Bai Shan said: "What should I do? I'm angry and I just want to fight back."
When County Magistrate Tang saw the two of them whispering in front of him, he couldn't help but point his fingers and said, "Can you restrain yourself?"
Man Bao and Bai Shan immediately became quiet.
The robber, no, it was Wang San, was immediately dragged up.
Magistrate Tang added tea to himself, took another sip, and waved. The clerk immediately came forward with a household registration book that he had just turned out, and said: "Sir, based on Sun Lichang's confession, we have found it."
According to Wang San’s household registration, his name is Wang San. He has a family of eight, both parents are alive. He has two brothers, both of whom are married, and a nephew who lives in the 28th household of Sunjia Village..."
Wang San, who was lying on the ground, looked pale.
County Magistrate Tang glanced at him, dropped a sign and said: "Come here, go get all the Wang family, young and old."
Wang San immediately raised his head and climbed two steps forward: "Sir, sir, this is none of my family's business. They don't know anything. They don't know anything."
Magistrate Tang sneered and asked, "What is none of their business?"
Wang San's face choked up.
Magistrate Tang continued to ask, "If it's none of their business, then whose business is it? Sun Dashu? Who else besides Sun Dashu?"
After Magistrate Tang asked, he slapped the gavel hard and asked: "I ask you again, do you want to recruit or not? If you don't recruit, someone will recruit for you. By then, I will not have the time to listen.
You said something but nothing. The police came to your door with your portrait, but your parents and brothers didn't recognize it. This is a crime of harboring. No matter how serious the crime you committed, they will also suffer.